Phase 2: What about the other half of the equation? Blackness doesn't exist on its own. We have to ask, what about whiteness? What is that whiteness in the context of Shakespeare. 6/
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Time for Q&A: Specific examples of ways to look at race in Shakespeare's texts. Smith: sonnets, "from fairest beauty," whiteness is there, it is imbricated with notions of beauty. The Shakespeare persona constructed as blackness in contrast to the whiteness of beloved. 17/
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The direst hand, darkened hand, the darkening is related to the blackening of actors on the stage to play Moors. Question: how does the racial makeup of your class affect how you teach; We're socialized to teach Shakespeare as a white object regardless of student demographics 18/
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We're all taught to read as white readers. Cites Morrison. Like Shakespeare we're all positioned as white. White positioning is what we have to navigate. 19/
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Casting q: is it important for characters to be racially accurate? ans: it depends on the production or we might cast more conceptually in order to directly address race. 20/
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Read Ian Smith's work, folks! It is


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